Roads, bridges to be repaired in rural areas

Aurangabad, Dec 24:

Roads and bridges will be repaired in the rural areas as the State Government approved five per cent of annual district plan as a special case.

It may be noted that there are 6,655 km long roads in rural and district areas which are under the purview of Zilla Parishad.

Executive engineer of Construction Department Zafar Ahmed Qazi said that Rs 12.36 crore sanctioned under rural road development programme (3054) and district roads development programme (5054) and Tourist Places Development scheme was diverted for Novel coronavirus.

Around 908.36 kms roads and bridges, a boundary wall were washed away due to heavy rainfall.

There was no provision for roads repair. People were facing a lot of inconvenience because of the sorry state of the road.

Addition chief executive officer of ZP Santosh Kavade made a demand of RS 27.76 crore on September 4,2019 for the repair of 99 bridges which were washed away in Aurangabad, Phulambri, Kannad, Sillod and Soyegaon tehsils in September-October 2019.

Nearly 908.38 kms roads, 410 bridges and a boundary wall were damaged in the district. The ZP administration demanded Rs 134 crore from the Government in November this year.

The ZP was deprived of fund for the repair works for the past four years.

The Government issued orders on Wednesday about 10 per cent fund out of the total approved will be used for the road development while five per cent will be provided for rural road repair works. The pending works of road repairs of the district will get the fund.